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DTrace in ACM Queue

While usually a shameless self-promoter, Bryan has been conspicuously silent about his recent article in ACM Queue. It's quite good, and goes beyond what has previously been written about DTrace in discussing its origins, the landscape of the problem, and some fundamental innovations embodied in DTrace -- information that may have been too obscure in our USENIX paper (according to at least one Stanford professor).